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76th Year - No. 53 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 14, 1984 12 Sections - 72 Pages - 25 Cents
McDonnell Douglas seeks approval
to test Harrier fighters at airport
By David Volk
Mlssourian staff writer
The Airport Advisory Board Tuesday
unanimously agreed to allow the McDonnell
Douglas Corp. to conduct final tests on its
new fighter planes at Columbia Regional
Airport before delivering them to the U. S.
Marine Corps. The testing would be for at
least sis years.
The City Council now must approve the
board's unanimous recommendation.
We're talking about a long- ter- m commit-ment,"
said CA. Plummer, chief test pilot
for McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis.
The planes are the AV- 8- B Harrier n, a sin- gls- se- at
aircraft used for close support mis-sions.
Based at small airfields, at remote
sites ashore and on small ships at sea, the
fighter can land on a 72- square--
foot alumi-num
mat or a two- lan- e road.
It carries an air- to- a- ir and air- to- grou- nd
cannon; laser- - or TV- guid- ed weapons; and up
to four 3Cu- gaU- on fuel tanks. However, none
of the weaponry would be aboard the planes
during testing.
McDonnell Douglas wants to test two air-planes
a month until 1983 and increase the
number of planes to three or four next year,
Plummer said.
The corporation plans to continue testing
the planes at least through 1990 and possibly
up to 1992, Plummer said
" When we budd an airplane, we have to
check it out We need to get away from
Lambert Field. It's too busy," the test pilot
said.
Because of the need to test the planes and
the congestion at Lambert Field in St. Louis,
the corporation opted for another test site at
an airport with less traffic.
" The other places we've been using to test
don't have all the things that we've needed,"
Plummer said. But Columbia Regional Air-port
fits the bill perfectly, he said. ;
The airport meets most of the corpora-tion's
criteria for a test site, including a run-way
length of 6,000 feet, distance from pop-ulation
center so that noise will not be a
problem, flying distance from St. Louis of
less than an hour, and runway sweeping and
snow removal. The airport also has concrete
runways that will allow testing of the plane's
hover capabilities.
" Your concrete is some of the best I've
ever seen," Plummer said. High quality con--
crete is important because the exhaust
nozzles that keep the planes hovenng cause
unusual wear on low quality or unsealed con-crete.
" The secret to the concrete is to keep
it sealed."
The amount of noise generated by the
fighter plane also should not be a problem,
Plummer said. Its decibel level is less than
that of planes already flying into the Colum-bia
facility, he said.
McDonnell Douglas executives said they
plan from four to six operations a month to
test the fighters. The tests will evaluate en-gine
standards and its performance, Plum-mer
said.
McDonnell Douglas also will test each
plane's vertical takeoffs, short takeoffs and
vertical short takeoff and landing capabili-ties,
Plummer said.
Five or six McDonnell Douglas employees
will be needed for the tests, but the test per-sonnel
will be flown back to St. Louis after
each test is completed for at least the next
year, he said.
Although the agreement will not immedi-ately
result in permanent jobs or create any
new jobs in Columbia, Department of Public
Works Director Ray Beck said he believes
the addition of McDonnell Douglas will be
beneficial.
" It may not be as great as we would like,
but it's a start," he said. " I think it's good
for the airport."
HIM MM II . . I. f ,, I p I I .
t
A McDonnell Douglas Harrier comes in for a landing.
City officials may be looking for a coattail
effect based on branch manager Lawrence
Lieberman's observation that other compa-nies
associated with the airline industry of-ten
follow McDonnell Douglas into a city.
These new businesses U3uallv set up shop
shortly after the corporation begins opera-tion.
The board also approved McDonnell Doug-las
request to sublease a hangar at the air
port for work and storage space
As part of the agreement, the corporator
will pay landing fees equivalent to those
charged the largest plane landing at the air-port,
Beck said. The fee currently oaid by
Ozark Airlines, is 25 cents per 1,000 pounds
The AV- 8B- ' s gross takeoff weight is 29,750
pounds At that rate, for example, it would
mean McDonnell Douglas will pay about
$ 7 25 every tune the fighter lands
Four protesters arjrested
after missile site break- i- n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( UPI) - A
UJS. magistrate said Tuesday four
anti- nucle- ar protesters who broke
into a Minuteman missile site and
smashed equipment were a danger
to the community, and he ordered
them jailed without bond.
The four Catholic peace activists
were charged with destruction of
government property. They are Carl
Kabat, 51, and Helen Woodson, 41,
both of Madison, Wis.; and Paul Ra-bat,
52, and Larry Cloud Morgan, 48,
both of Minneapolis.
Chief Magistrate Calvin Hamilton
ordered them held without bond af-ter
the protesters told authorities
they would return to the missile site
and would not comply with condi-tions
of being released on bond. U. S.
Attorney Robert Uhlrich said they
did not want bond and he asked that
it be denied.
" On that, the court made the find-ing
fliey would be a danger to the
community, and ordered them de-tained
without bail," Uhlnch said.
Hamilton told them to appear at a
preliminary hearing Nov. 23. They
told Hamilton they would represent
themselves and declined an attor-ney.
Uhlrich said they caused $ 25,000
damage Monday to a missile silo
near Higguuville, about 35 miles
east of Kansas City, Mo.
Uhlrich said he will present the
case to a federal grand jury the
week of Nov. 26. Conviction carries a
maximum 10 years in prison.
The protesters call themselves the
" silo pruning hooks" in reference to
the Biblical mandate to " beat
swords into plowshares and spears
into pruning hooks." They said they
drove to the silo, smashed equip-ment
and were praying when they
were arrested.
The protesters said they broke
through a chain- lin- k fence to get to
the sue and used a compressor- drive- n,
90- pou- nd jackhammer to damage
the equipment Preliminary reports
indicated a combination lock, power
cable, three security antennas and
some concrete above the missile
were damaged
A spokesman for Whiteman Air
Force Base, at Knob Noster, Mo.,
which operates the silos, said: " At
no time did the individuals have ac-cess
to the missile. The missile con-tinues
at normal operation."
' UPiTttepdelM
These pictures, taken by the protesters, identify Paul Kabat as
the man wielding a sledgehammer in the top photo. The per-sons
pictured above were identified as Paul Kabat, Helen
Woodson, Carl Kabat and Larry Cloud Morgan.
Carson Russell, Route 9, at left keeps a watchful eye while he combines soybeans
about six miles north of Columbia. Russell said it is discouraging work because soy-bean
yields were severely reduced this year by the wet spring and dry summer.
Com, sorghum yields exceed 9S3
By Larry Archorend Mark Tucker
Mlssourian staff wrllern
November grain estimates released by the Sta-tistical
Livestock and Crop Reporting Service
show mid- Misso- uri corn and grain sorghum
yields substantially above 1983 figures.
But area soybean harvests are reported almost
as low as last year's drought- deplete- d levels.
The estimates, released last Friday, put region-al
soybean yields at 21 bushels per acre. That is
down one bushel from October estimates, and
only one bushel per acre more than last year's
crop the worstslnce 1980.
According to Gene Kliethermen of MFA Sales,
this year's drought caused many of the soybean
pods to fall from the plants before harvest, lower-ing
yields.
i
World grain demand drops Page 7A.
He said muddy field conditions have kept farm-ers
trom Harvesting on schedule, and many beans
are still in the field. Only 57 percent of the mid- Misso- uri
soybean crop has been harvested so far
this year, compared with 83 percent at this tune
last year.
Kliethermen says most of the beans that have
been harvested are of good quality.
The reporting service put November corn
yields at 78 bushels per acre, up from 51- bus- hel
yields last year. Grain sorghum yields are up 12
bushels from last year, at 70 bushels per acre.
Statewide soybean yields are expected to pro-duce
1155 millions bushels of soybeans, averag-ing
21 bushels per acre, the same as regional
SeeUSDA, P8ge16A.
Luann Brendsen
Airborne golf pros
Sea gulls tee- o- ff against residents in Massachusetts
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ( UPI) - S-mith
& Wesson has closed its new
company golf driving range because
sea gulls were apparently mistaking
golf balls for sea shells, scooping
them up and dropping them on un-suspecting
neighbors.
" It was open for about a week and
the damn sea gulls started coming in
and picking up the golf balls," Al-fred
Stafford, a quality control in-spector
who convinced the company
to open the range for its 2,500 em--
ptoyees, said Tuesday.
" I had no Idea I'd have any prob--.
lero with sea gulls. They must think
they're something to eat, some kind
of sea shells or clam shells," said
Stafford, 54, of Springfield;
The new range opened Oct 18., but
it was dosed a week later when
Stafford realized what was happen-ing.
" I lost about 500 balls and I started
seeing them all over. My first im
pression was that the fellows were
hitting them all over the place, but
then I realized no one in their right
mind would hit them there,' ' he said.
Birds were spotted dropping balls
on Interstate 291, at least one wind-shield
was reported broken on a car
parked across die street and Staff-ord
saw one bird drop a ball on near-by
Roosevelt Avenue, he said.
No moving cars were reported hit
by the birds, which were apparently
trying to break open the balls like
clam shells to eat whatever was in-side,
he said.
" They did it, too," said Stafford.
" I found a couple of balls with
holes." -
Company officials contacted the
National Golf Association, wildlife
groups and airports that had prob-lems
with birds in the hope of solving
the problem ' and re- openi- ng the
range in the spring, Stafford said. , , . tl
J 5

J
Gobbledygook g ff '
For those with a palate for raraH l& SSj v
J I. 1
Tiger co- capta- in
--- K
The Missouri women's jd fiffigBKirTM j
basketball team will look to rfL A smSk
senior co- captamJ- oni Davis viMHSr? !
for leadership this season. 3 MSff
The Tigers open their season s " TflM Saturday against Cleveland tiHft1feHhSSrjete
State. See Sports Pago 11 A. WWEiSHH
II OPtN -- 0
A leak in Moberly m ,- -. JQr .
While some Moberly jJBS t J Mr-- '
residents sold water, others ' 8 ft fl A 4p f" P6,
looked for it leaking. Two lAl I L ! J
citizens found the leak, but & fl P 6f
not before 1 4 million gallons B Sf J I oi l
went down the dram See rAf C A r
PagelSA. FUK bALt
76th Year - No. 53 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 14, 1984 12 Sections - 72 Pages - 25 Cents
McDonnell Douglas seeks approval
to test Harrier fighters at airport
By David Volk
Mlssourian staff writer
The Airport Advisory Board Tuesday
unanimously agreed to allow the McDonnell
Douglas Corp. to conduct final tests on its
new fighter planes at Columbia Regional
Airport before delivering them to the U. S.
Marine Corps. The testing would be for at
least sis years.
The City Council now must approve the
board's unanimous recommendation.
We're talking about a long- ter- m commit-ment,"
said CA. Plummer, chief test pilot
for McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis.
The planes are the AV- 8- B Harrier n, a sin- gls- se- at
aircraft used for close support mis-sions.
Based at small airfields, at remote
sites ashore and on small ships at sea, the
fighter can land on a 72- square--
foot alumi-num
mat or a two- lan- e road.
It carries an air- to- a- ir and air- to- grou- nd
cannon; laser- - or TV- guid- ed weapons; and up
to four 3Cu- gaU- on fuel tanks. However, none
of the weaponry would be aboard the planes
during testing.
McDonnell Douglas wants to test two air-planes
a month until 1983 and increase the
number of planes to three or four next year,
Plummer said.
The corporation plans to continue testing
the planes at least through 1990 and possibly
up to 1992, Plummer said
" When we budd an airplane, we have to
check it out We need to get away from
Lambert Field. It's too busy," the test pilot
said.
Because of the need to test the planes and
the congestion at Lambert Field in St. Louis,
the corporation opted for another test site at
an airport with less traffic.
" The other places we've been using to test
don't have all the things that we've needed,"
Plummer said. But Columbia Regional Air-port
fits the bill perfectly, he said. ;
The airport meets most of the corpora-tion's
criteria for a test site, including a run-way
length of 6,000 feet, distance from pop-ulation
center so that noise will not be a
problem, flying distance from St. Louis of
less than an hour, and runway sweeping and
snow removal. The airport also has concrete
runways that will allow testing of the plane's
hover capabilities.
" Your concrete is some of the best I've
ever seen," Plummer said. High quality con--
crete is important because the exhaust
nozzles that keep the planes hovenng cause
unusual wear on low quality or unsealed con-crete.
" The secret to the concrete is to keep
it sealed."
The amount of noise generated by the
fighter plane also should not be a problem,
Plummer said. Its decibel level is less than
that of planes already flying into the Colum-bia
facility, he said.
McDonnell Douglas executives said they
plan from four to six operations a month to
test the fighters. The tests will evaluate en-gine
standards and its performance, Plum-mer
said.
McDonnell Douglas also will test each
plane's vertical takeoffs, short takeoffs and
vertical short takeoff and landing capabili-ties,
Plummer said.
Five or six McDonnell Douglas employees
will be needed for the tests, but the test per-sonnel
will be flown back to St. Louis after
each test is completed for at least the next
year, he said.
Although the agreement will not immedi-ately
result in permanent jobs or create any
new jobs in Columbia, Department of Public
Works Director Ray Beck said he believes
the addition of McDonnell Douglas will be
beneficial.
" It may not be as great as we would like,
but it's a start," he said. " I think it's good
for the airport."
HIM MM II . . I. f ,, I p I I .
t
A McDonnell Douglas Harrier comes in for a landing.
City officials may be looking for a coattail
effect based on branch manager Lawrence
Lieberman's observation that other compa-nies
associated with the airline industry of-ten
follow McDonnell Douglas into a city.
These new businesses U3uallv set up shop
shortly after the corporation begins opera-tion.
The board also approved McDonnell Doug-las
request to sublease a hangar at the air
port for work and storage space
As part of the agreement, the corporator
will pay landing fees equivalent to those
charged the largest plane landing at the air-port,
Beck said. The fee currently oaid by
Ozark Airlines, is 25 cents per 1,000 pounds
The AV- 8B- ' s gross takeoff weight is 29,750
pounds At that rate, for example, it would
mean McDonnell Douglas will pay about
$ 7 25 every tune the fighter lands
Four protesters arjrested
after missile site break- i- n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( UPI) - A
UJS. magistrate said Tuesday four
anti- nucle- ar protesters who broke
into a Minuteman missile site and
smashed equipment were a danger
to the community, and he ordered
them jailed without bond.
The four Catholic peace activists
were charged with destruction of
government property. They are Carl
Kabat, 51, and Helen Woodson, 41,
both of Madison, Wis.; and Paul Ra-bat,
52, and Larry Cloud Morgan, 48,
both of Minneapolis.
Chief Magistrate Calvin Hamilton
ordered them held without bond af-ter
the protesters told authorities
they would return to the missile site
and would not comply with condi-tions
of being released on bond. U. S.
Attorney Robert Uhlrich said they
did not want bond and he asked that
it be denied.
" On that, the court made the find-ing
fliey would be a danger to the
community, and ordered them de-tained
without bail," Uhlnch said.
Hamilton told them to appear at a
preliminary hearing Nov. 23. They
told Hamilton they would represent
themselves and declined an attor-ney.
Uhlrich said they caused $ 25,000
damage Monday to a missile silo
near Higguuville, about 35 miles
east of Kansas City, Mo.
Uhlrich said he will present the
case to a federal grand jury the
week of Nov. 26. Conviction carries a
maximum 10 years in prison.
The protesters call themselves the
" silo pruning hooks" in reference to
the Biblical mandate to " beat
swords into plowshares and spears
into pruning hooks." They said they
drove to the silo, smashed equip-ment
and were praying when they
were arrested.
The protesters said they broke
through a chain- lin- k fence to get to
the sue and used a compressor- drive- n,
90- pou- nd jackhammer to damage
the equipment Preliminary reports
indicated a combination lock, power
cable, three security antennas and
some concrete above the missile
were damaged
A spokesman for Whiteman Air
Force Base, at Knob Noster, Mo.,
which operates the silos, said: " At
no time did the individuals have ac-cess
to the missile. The missile con-tinues
at normal operation."
' UPiTttepdelM
These pictures, taken by the protesters, identify Paul Kabat as
the man wielding a sledgehammer in the top photo. The per-sons
pictured above were identified as Paul Kabat, Helen
Woodson, Carl Kabat and Larry Cloud Morgan.
Carson Russell, Route 9, at left keeps a watchful eye while he combines soybeans
about six miles north of Columbia. Russell said it is discouraging work because soy-bean
yields were severely reduced this year by the wet spring and dry summer.
Com, sorghum yields exceed 9S3
By Larry Archorend Mark Tucker
Mlssourian staff wrllern
November grain estimates released by the Sta-tistical
Livestock and Crop Reporting Service
show mid- Misso- uri corn and grain sorghum
yields substantially above 1983 figures.
But area soybean harvests are reported almost
as low as last year's drought- deplete- d levels.
The estimates, released last Friday, put region-al
soybean yields at 21 bushels per acre. That is
down one bushel from October estimates, and
only one bushel per acre more than last year's
crop the worstslnce 1980.
According to Gene Kliethermen of MFA Sales,
this year's drought caused many of the soybean
pods to fall from the plants before harvest, lower-ing
yields.
i
World grain demand drops Page 7A.
He said muddy field conditions have kept farm-ers
trom Harvesting on schedule, and many beans
are still in the field. Only 57 percent of the mid- Misso- uri
soybean crop has been harvested so far
this year, compared with 83 percent at this tune
last year.
Kliethermen says most of the beans that have
been harvested are of good quality.
The reporting service put November corn
yields at 78 bushels per acre, up from 51- bus- hel
yields last year. Grain sorghum yields are up 12
bushels from last year, at 70 bushels per acre.
Statewide soybean yields are expected to pro-duce
1155 millions bushels of soybeans, averag-ing
21 bushels per acre, the same as regional
SeeUSDA, P8ge16A.
Luann Brendsen
Airborne golf pros
Sea gulls tee- o- ff against residents in Massachusetts
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ( UPI) - S-mith
& Wesson has closed its new
company golf driving range because
sea gulls were apparently mistaking
golf balls for sea shells, scooping
them up and dropping them on un-suspecting
neighbors.
" It was open for about a week and
the damn sea gulls started coming in
and picking up the golf balls," Al-fred
Stafford, a quality control in-spector
who convinced the company
to open the range for its 2,500 em--
ptoyees, said Tuesday.
" I had no Idea I'd have any prob--.
lero with sea gulls. They must think
they're something to eat, some kind
of sea shells or clam shells," said
Stafford, 54, of Springfield;
The new range opened Oct 18., but
it was dosed a week later when
Stafford realized what was happen-ing.
" I lost about 500 balls and I started
seeing them all over. My first im
pression was that the fellows were
hitting them all over the place, but
then I realized no one in their right
mind would hit them there,' ' he said.
Birds were spotted dropping balls
on Interstate 291, at least one wind-shield
was reported broken on a car
parked across die street and Staff-ord
saw one bird drop a ball on near-by
Roosevelt Avenue, he said.
No moving cars were reported hit
by the birds, which were apparently
trying to break open the balls like
clam shells to eat whatever was in-side,
he said.
" They did it, too," said Stafford.
" I found a couple of balls with
holes." -
Company officials contacted the
National Golf Association, wildlife
groups and airports that had prob-lems
with birds in the hope of solving
the problem ' and re- openi- ng the
range in the spring, Stafford said. , , . tl
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